Spotlight on Blasphemy Laws
As antiquated as it may sound, 84 countries currently have laws criminalizing blasphemy. The international community has long recognized the problematic nature of these laws; the ‘End Blasphemy Laws campaign,’ launched in the wake of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre,...
Pharmaceutical Patents During COVID-19 and The TRIPS Agreement
Overview of Intellectual Property Rights Intellectual property rights protect the inventions of an individual’s creativity by protecting them under the general categories of copyright law and industrial property law. Copyright law focuses on the creative work of...
Nord Stream Sabotage
Introduction On September 26th, 2022, in the middle of the night, an unknown actor blew up the underwater Nord Stream 1 and 2 Pipelines in the Baltic Sea, causing one of the largest releases of methane gas ever. Investigations began immediately, but findings and...
How Involuntary Commitment Laws Relate to Mental Health and Homelessness: the U.S. and Italy
This article will suggest that the U.S. should follow the legal framework of Italy’s involuntary commitment laws. Adding the “need for treatment” standard, coupled with increasing the number of verifications along the chain to commitment, could affect the rates of...
Move Over, Russia: China Increased its Election Interference Efforts as the 2022 US Midterms Approached
Lin Qiming, a Chinese state security agent, had several creative suggestions for how to destroy Yan Xiong’s nascent congressional campaign in the Democratic primary for New York’s 10th District. In Mr. Lin’s conversations with a private investigator (PI) he had hired...
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States: An Overview of the Supreme Court’s Opportunity to Substantially Impact Foreign Policy
Introduction & Background Against the Biden administration’s opposition, the Supreme Court agreed in October to hear an appeal from the Second Circuit by a Turkish state-owned bank, Halkbank, on whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”) protects...
Flood of Litigation: Brumadinho and the Future of Disclosure
On January 25th, 2019, a dam built to support the Córrego de Feijão iron ore mine collapsed. Built in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais to store a slurry of byproducts from the process of separating iron from the surrounding mineral deposits, the dam’s collapse...
Putting Big Tech in its Place: How the European Union is Controlling Internet Behemoths
Despite all the wonders that technology has increasingly brought – connecting people on the other side of the world throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, advancing medicine, and increasing productivity, just to name a few – there exists today, fairly little regulation of...
International Intellectual Property Theft: Background Framework For Private Enforcement
International intellectual property (IIP) theft occurs when foreign actors infringe upon, or outright steal, intellectual property (IP) owned by a domestic entity. IIP theft takes many forms, from the manufacture and export of counterfeit Birkin bags to sophisticated...
The European Union’s Chilling Future
After decades of investing in renewable energy sectors while decreasing investment in fossil fuels and relying on Russian gas instead, the European Union now finds itself in an energy crisis. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe responded by banning the...